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how to not pay your taxes

review: mercury personal banking

explore chaotic autonomous systems in my game prototype

lil' fun langs' guts

my phone will spam you if i fail to exercise by 3pm

math milestones

mysterious nsfw "grok" notification from google app

every conversation is a backrub and/or a helicopter in a puddle

neither fan nor frond

happy belated new year

golfing is not rowing

affordances are inconceivable

a brief history of roombas with fart spray

how to win titular metagames

emoji book synopses

210 iq is not enough

ai minus vagina

placebo emporium: 2025 annual shareholder letter

be more impolite

town hall #28: noodle

do not shred your fingers in an actual blender

erp therapy sucks

"i'm the type of person who..."

100,000,000 crowpower and no horses on the moon

the curious case of flunking my anthropic interview (again)

good vibes: a claude-code case-study

a stern letter to the drawbridge operator

god created men; sam altman made them equal.

do metaprojects

the finger and the moon

why did the chicken cross the road?

my website is ugly because i made it

friends with gps benefits

proposal for emoji: sad money-mouth face

be the node you want to see in the network

data demand some damn respect.

the five-week solo startup

a conversation algorithm i cribbed from clinical psychologists

napkin math tool

you'll never be ready for anything that matters

an invitation to shit on my ideas

begrudgingly choosing cbor over messagepack

meetup.com in your calendar

alternatives to "sorry"

dreaming of smel shell

i am not offering mentoring

"thanks. how do you want to help?"

si base units & constants

materials cheat sheet

cramming scrapscript into msgpack

sorry spotify, i wrapped it myself

your next two zeroes

i hereby pardon all parking enforcement officers

the timeless way of software

colt's revolutions

year day is december 11

town hall #27: skies

stinky gifts from your idea kitty

how to flatpack programs

insurance insurance

host an indie-web yardsale on your /junk page

rob the whole world; give it back

how to build god and get away with it

town hall #26: rounding

a history of microwave ovens

a georgist's guerilla gardening guide

legalize life (and living)

the soundless interstitium

irresponsible servers: from slop talk to shop talk

seizing the means of re-production

town hall #25: simularium

reactive relational algebra

growing the graveyard of "better spreadsheets"

a one man war of attrition

profitable plant propagation prevents poaching

proplifting, plant piracy, and dumpster chocolates

offensive horticulture

so many silver landmines

bang! bang! he murdered math! {the musical!}

town hall #24: fwd

scrapsheets (demo)

the silicon valley tarpits

fwd: re: radioactive fungus email from grandma

town hall #23: clown world

against the advice of my superintelligence

"work hard, play hard"

publishable network contracts in scrapscript

visionos dev: taylor's opinionated and already-outdated guide (2024)

posette 2024: how/why to sweep async tasks...

metabootstrapped messaging protocols

urgent/optimistic meeting matrix

elm town #75: the great wall of code

the acme of software

kyle explains "legacy software" to the aliens

to chelsea & mom, happy mothers' day

town hall #22: news

the best bad baby names

town hall #21: basement

dear advertisers, please respect my thirst for novelty.

foods for straight teeth & easy breathing

long time; forgot to human

concat arrays with sql aggregate functions

people & blogs: taylor troesh

why i write extremely

hyper-realistic 2037 concept car interior

half-star emoji (for half the price)

town hall #20: pinball

clean your codebase with basic information theory

podcast rss xml (in ugly sql)

a simple srs algo (in ugly sql)

an antidote to subscription fatigue

frugly vs. freemium

nontrepeneur: clifford stoll

nontrepeneur: derek sivers

nontrepeneur: steve wozniak

on nontrepeneurship

that vonnegut/heller story

everything worse than previously thought

a jar of dirt, or how we failed to exhume my great-great-uncle

town hall #19: whimsy

"please click on all images of the heaviest animal species"

hacker stations: taylor troesh

why i didn't play this harpsichord sooner

emoji by category

re: (extremely, unnecessarily long) thanks for the pardoning

does betteridge's law apply to this headline?

tear duct enhancement surgery

two toucans canoe

town hall #18: sunflower

the "cheap" web

paying netflix $0.53/h, etc.

the most frustrating thing in your life

santa prefers wealthy sick children

scientists find exciting new way to talk about nothing in press releases

"all foods are either protein or candy."

santa claus is not a god... yet

how to observe buydays

make a /wish page!

you buy; they fly

town hall #17: scrimmage

cram those ideas into a clown car

"mvp" is dead! long live "fpc".

graphic design is my passion

hntv: play hn yt links locally

measure twice, vise thrice.

husband, father, obligation

town hall #16: bloat

wigwam.directory

i hereby pardon all junior engineers

knuth airgaps & knuth buffers

town hall #15: artifacts

russian woman achieves 9x "mythical" man month

what are authors even trying to do?

compressing codebase collocates

digital desire paths

how to opt-out of chatgpt training without clearing conversation history

if it talks like a therapist...

how i do things: chronic fatigue edition

taming your infinite queues

living with sudden adult death syndrome (sads)

town hall #14: frends

apple should acquire wolfram research

profitable parenting

much worse than kids stomping that pig's bladder

"somebody tranq that child!"

easy email tokens in pure postgres

how/why to sweep async tasks under a postgres table

my battlestation

rvnx's "p**is table test" for llm censorship

king of the bunny hill

p**fectionism isn't your problem

the lazy garbage nursery guide

56% of mcnugget carbon is corn

i'm a coin boy, too

how would you like chatgpt to respond?

chloe is a listener

share demos every friday

man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase

go big or go small or go home but don't go medium

town hall #13: pests

how to coast with corporate camouflage

demonstrate evergreen proof

do unforgettable work

don't fight customers

find your value

how to pick your price

rucking with children

select your service

sell your service

productize yourself

things that outlive fancy rats

spoil your secret sauce

town hall #12: wontfix

changelog #546: "don't make things worse!"

when to build millennia sewers

i wasn't ready to start a tech conference.

hogwarts had a cafetorium?

town hall #11: downhill

they trap you in meetings because you do stupid shit

i pretended that i didn't know any better

ikea-oriented development

no more bargain-bin kisses

11 ways to shave a yak

put your reputation on the deadline

town hall #10: seeds

nextdoor's heisensubscribe (and other dark patterns)

why i use elm in 2023

weeds & bozo explosions

tiny table-of-contents js snippet

case study: taylor's lifestyle design

lifestyle design (from first principles)

tools & techniques for ar/vr media

taylor's delights

i never want to be 93 years old

good art is commonplace

taylor's media criticism system

slay dragon before reorganizing closet

say "quadyssey", not "quadrilogy".

town hall #8: scaling

fire 50% of managers (at random)

how to be a -10x engineer

winning the goblin's game

a cyberpunk bathroom in the middle of nowhere

town hall #7: scary stuff

town hall #9: listen

don't play near black holes

charts & checklists for serious dreamers

ar demands peripherals

ar interoperability opportunities

apple will win the ar/vr wars

are you serious?

bananas will become smartphones

claim a domain in the wet web

death in diapers

monomode & multimode in augmented reality

town hall #6: spark joy and conversation

how to learn a foreign language in 500 hours

how to cultivate joy

deflect external acceptance

how to stop being fake

some thoughts on prime numbers

town hall #5: outdoing myself

leave your phone at home

decline invitations

find a phone-home

the joy of monotasking

busy brain, busy body

five hundred hours

take everything to your grave

pick practical principles

refrigerate reusable water bottles

how to scrounge for between time

how to thwart waiting mode

nothing fulfills

toki pona sign-language flash-cards

the toki pona baby sign-language guide

the toki pona baby sign-language manifesto

a tiny html snippet to "discuss on hn"

your brilliant app idea

liberate breakfast

taylor's timeline

8 weekends without a drink

make important things inevitable

rules for good work

please sell my personal information

tips for remote work

how to become exponential

weekend whenever

extinguish all notifications

accept your fate

10 minutes is 1% of your day

the only way to make money

beware the grind

my yearly themes

a magic question for emotional conversations

blogs and newsletters

my book reviews

thank you vs. sorry

my deep daily questions

never wait for anything

how do i get the ability to see the gnomes?

the scourge of "someday"

1,000 weekends without a drink

how to become the worst version of yourself

never wait for the check at restaurants

parental-self-controls

student-oriented teaching

do it for the music

it tastes like a penny

long-live plain text!

awesome-awesome-awesome

my podcast subscriptions

the world's ugliest ring

fame: persistence vs. skill

why is every song out-of-tune?

using {blocks} in rust & go for fun & profit

why javascript's secret comma operator is so darn useful

maybe i don't know more than the experts

“i’m lonely 😎”

choose values over discipline

finding an infintesimal worm in your apple

an algorithm for generating ideas

the universe is god (according to christians)

don't feel your feelings

suspended disbelief

what isn't david

structure-state-value architecture for oop

synthetic intelligence

how do taoists quit smoking?

the speedy media manifesto

my music reviews

a one-size-fits-most software architecture

on improving education

set phasers to blind

the problem with podcasts

self-control is an anti-virtue

be unreasonable

nobody actually sneezes

plausible deniability

json considered harmful

blood & brain ; heart & helix

self-host blog images in two lines of bash